Two people died on Iowa’s roadways on Friday. The Iowa State Patrol reports 27-year-old Cole Lantz of Williams died while attempting to pass another vehicle on U.S. 69 in Hamilton County at 6:30 a.m. Lantz collided head-on with another vehicle and caused a third to swerve. The other was a car vs. pedestrian incident in Fort Madison. Seventy-year-old Nancy Lynne Kuhljergen attempted to cross a road and was struck by a Toyota Tacoma.

Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 3.0 percent in October amid job cuts in manufacturing and construction. Meanwhile, the state’s labor force participation rate ticked down by 0.1 percentage points to 66.2 percent last month, and the U.S. unemployment rate remained at 4.1 percent in October. The number of unemployed Iowans increased to 51,000 in October from 49,400 in September. The total number of working Iowans fell to 1,633,200 in October. This figure is 1,400 lower than September and 19,300 lower than one year ago.